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Cardiovascular Pathology

Normal Heart http: //medlib. med. utah. edu/Web. Path/CVHTML/CV 001. html

Cardiomyopathy heart is flaccid and enlarged http: //medlib. med. utah. edu/Web. Path/CVHTML/CV 117. html

http: //medlib. med. utah. edu/Web. Path/CVHTML/CV 047. html Fibrinous Pericarditis

Pinpoint hemorrhages (epicardium of heart) Often due to low platelet count. http: //www-medlib. med. utah. edu/Web. Path/ATHHTML/ATH 035. html

Pacing wire Coronary Artery Bypass http: //medlib. med. utah. edu/Web. Path/CVHTML/CV 028. html Bypass grafts

Interventricular Septal Defect http: //www-medlib. med. utah. edu/Web. Path/ATHHTML/ATH 014. html

http: //www-medlib. med. utah. edu/Web. Path/ATHHTML/ATH 014. html Ventricular Aneurysm following MI Note: thin ventricular wall & fibrous scar tissue

The Aorta • The largest artery in body • Arises from left ventricle • Transports blood to cells throughout the body

Normal Aorta (cut longitudinally) http: //www-medlib. med. utah. edu/Web. Path/ATHHTML/ATH 015. html

Diseased Aortas http: //www-medlib. med. utah. edu/Web. Path/ATHHTML/ATH 017. html

Severe Arteriosclerosis (aorta)

Aortic Aneurysm of Abdomen

Aneurysm Abdominal Aorta http: //www-medlib. med. utah. edu/Web. Path/ATHHTML/ATH 021. html

Dissecting aneurysm of aorta splits in wall

Abdominal aorta Aortic Aneurysm iliac arteries

Hemopericardium (result of aortic dissection) http: //medlib. med. utah. edu/Web. Path/CVHTML/CV 155. html

Aortic Tear http: //medlib. med. utah. edu/Web. Path/CVHTML/CV 158. html

Limited Dissection of Aorta thrombus http: //medlib. med. utah. edu/Web. Path/CVHTML/CV 031. html

Compression--right Carotid (due to aortic dissection) http: //medlib. med. utah. edu/Web. Path/CVHTML/CV 161. html

Coarctation of Aorta (aorta narrows to about 3 mm)

Coarctation of Aorta (longitudinally opened)

Infective Endocarditis

Acute Bacterial Endocarditis (destroying aortic valve) http: //medlib. med. utah. edu/Web. Path/CVHTML/CV 040. html

Rheumatic Endocariditis

Small linear hemorrhages in finger in patient with infective endocarditis http: //medlib. med. utah. edu/Web. Path/CVHTML/CV 105. html

Calcified aortic stenosis-aortic valve

Prolapse Mitral Valve Note long, thin chordae tendinae http: //medlib. med. utah. edu/Web. Path/CVHTML/CV 033. html

Opened coronary artery demonstrates thrombosis Note dark red color: (consistent with myocardial infarction) http: //www-medlib. med. utah. edu/Web. Path/ATHHTML/ATH 008. html

Normal Coronary Artery

Narrowing of luman in coronary artery

Coronary Artery Thrombosis

Thrombus in lumen of coronary plaques http: //www-medlib. med. utah. edu/Web. Path/ATHHTML/ATH 009. html

Narrowed Coronary Artery

Severe Atherosclerosis (with calcification)

Myocardial Rupture Due to transmural myocardial infarction

Myocardial Rupture (due to MI that occured 3 days earlier)

Ventricular Aneurysm

Thrombus in Femoral Vein

Carotid Artery Surgery

normal heart enlarged heart (cardiomegaly)

Radiograph Right Heart Pulmonary artery Vena cavae

Radiograph Left Heart

• Enlarged heart (cardiomegaly) (should be width of one lung field) • Pulmonary edema (white areas are indicative of fluid) Congestive Heart Failure

Dextrocardia

Enlarged Heart

Summary 1. Bulging segment of vessel is called: aneurysm 2. Abnormal condition of lipid plaques is called: arteriosclerosis 3. When wall of artery splits and pulls away from vessel, this is called: dissection

4. The largest great vessel is the: aorta 5. Area of heart tissue that died as result of blood clot is a: myocardial infarction 6. A clot that forms in a vessel & stays at site of formation is called a: thrombus

7. A mass that floats in the blood stream & gets lodged in a vessel is an: embolus 8. The medical term that means enlarged heart is: cardiomegaly 9. Narrowing of a great vessel is called: coarctation